In the beautiful and haunting story “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a great change takes place in a remote village on a seaside cape after a beautiful drowned body washes to shore . Prompt: Why do you think I might have assigned this as the first […]
Week 01 Discussion
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In the short story, ” The Handsome Drowned Man in The World”, by Gabriel Gracia Marquez, the author discovers something he did not expect he’s curiosity about beauty and unexplainable what he had seen. In my opinion, this short story has a lot of meaning which is symbolic, Identity, and […]
“The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story that touches on the theme of transformation. The village is transformed by the villagers. The villager’s hearts and minds are transformed by Esteban’s appearance and presence in their village. The story shows how one’s entire outlook […]
After reading “The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World” by Gabriel Marquez, I’m confused why this was assigned as the first story to read. In the title it says this is a “ tale for children”, but this was a very difficult read. The beginning threw me off completely as […]
As I thought about my response to this week’s Discussion prompt, I struggled through my typical drawn out laborious and painful process when it comes to writing. Though I have never lacked for imagination, I have often lacked an effective process to put what I have imagined into words. I […]
Having “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcias Marquez be the first course of this course is to expose us the a unique style of story telling. It will allow us to think more critically about what the narrative of the stories that we will be read […]
Having “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World ” by Gabriel Garcias Marquez as the first story of the course is to open the audience’s mind and think outside the box. I was confused about the short story the first time I read it but after reading it a couple […]
Starting the course with Marquez’s “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” is a clever move for a literature class. The story shows how a village’s simple, day-to-day life is turned upside down when a mysterious drowned man arrives. By picking this as the first read, it’s like saying, “Look, literature isn’t […]
The reason why I feel the professor assigned this reading assignment first to us is because it’s a different type of story. To be specific this story is something that definitely catches the eye of a reader for its main idea of a man being washed up and villagers finding […]
Title: “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel García Márquez Prompt: Why do you think I might have assigned this as the first story of the course? The reason behind selecting this story, “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” as the opening piece for our course might be because it […]
I honestly was very conflicted as to why “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was our first story. I thought it was extremely random and pointless, but I gathered that that was exactly the reason. I felt as though you wanted us to experience something completely foreign […]
As this class is about literature, the story ” The Most Handsome Drowned Man” describes the class very well. In literature you would have to read and write, discuss about texts, think critically and ideas. The story was scary and not pleased at the beginning but as you are reading […]
” The Most Handsome Drowned Man” Prompt: Why do you think I might have assigned this as the first story of the course? This story fits well as opening story to the course because it illustrates the idea to become open-minded. In the beginning of the story people were afraid, […]
